NEW!! - in print

[Sheetshooter]

Well, Issue number 08 of SQUINT is out - subtitled "Movie". At about $27.00 this certainly ain't tomorrow's fish wrapping but then would it be worth buying if it were.

The cover is by Paul Empson who did an amazing series at a mountain set Seidler designed home in an earlier edition. He also shot the main spread in this edition entitled "Nothing Human Loves Forever" and, in keeping with the general tone of the magazine, his style changes dramatically (and for dramatic effect) throughoput the spread. He has a lesser feature also.

The strength of SQUINT is that it is as much about great photography as it is about fashion or lifestyle. It is all in here: Landscape, built environment, fashion, beauty, lust, decadence .... the lot.

A great inspiration and reference magazine for any photographers with a yearning for the fashion world. (Are you listening Wendell??)

Another MUST HAVE is a new monograph from the recently departed master: "WOMAN IN THE MIRROR - Richard Avedon" [Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 0-8109-5962-3]

It is all in here. THEY are all in here. From the rarified air of the Haute-Couture world of Paris in the 1950s and the Swingin' Sixties, through to the celebrity of Broadway and on to the grit and grime of itinerant vagrants of the American West. At only a hundred smackers this book is incredible value and if you only had ONE photographic monograph of 'people' and 'fashion' photography then this would be as good an acquisition as any.

Then again, as a life-long fervent admirer of Uncle Dick I guess I would say that.

[ajo43]

Thanks for the tips Sheetshooter. Can you buy Squint at the average newsagency? I don't think I've ever seen it

[Sheetshooter]

Jonesy,

It ain't everywhere. I get mine at PUBLISHED ART in Mary Street, Surry Hills (ground floor of Teachers' Federation Building at the corner of Reservoir Street). Ask for Sharon and say that Walter sent you. (Good grief, that sounds like the old Joe The Gadget Man, don't it?) Good coffee and nibbles next door at Toast also.

[ajo43]

I know the coffee shop well. It's a wonder that you and I haven't bumped into each other in the back streets of Surry Hills.

I've always thought that a walking history tour of the area would be fantastic. So much interesting architecture.

I used to live on Devonshire St just near a house that in the 1920's was an illegal casino and gangster hangout. The rumour was that under the pavers in the back yard there could be several bodies (it's now a florest - appropriate !)

[Sheetshooter]

The rumour was that under the pavers in the back yard there could be several bodies (it's now a florest - appropriate !)

With well pushed-up daisies I would imagine. There is loads of this hidden and forgotten history around Sydney. I nearly rented the old Forbes Club premises near the Cross at one time. There were escape passages through the ceiling for in the event of a raid.

And I served a part of my time at Supreme Films in Paddo - alongside the old Royal Hospital For Women. The administration block of the film studio was an old corrugated iron shed that was heritage listed - it has been the original Thommo's Two-Up School. Gone now tough, who knows the power of the investors' dollars.

Another thing worthy of investigation is the Spanish (or Portuguese) settlement in Sydney Harbour in the 16th Century. Apparently they were here about 5 years to effect repairs after a stormy crossing of the Pacific. Lawrence Hargreaves (the kite man) was a pre-eminent researcher into that.

These little tools which we so love playing with contain within them the power to illuminate all these fascinating things.

Cheers,